San Anselmo approves $1.7M paving project

A $1.7 million paving project is moving forward for 11 segments of residential streets in San Anselmo.

The Town Council voted unanimously Tuesday to authorize staff to put the project to bid. The plan is part of the annual capital improvement program and will include repaving, adding curb ramps and replace striping in the Oak Springs and Morningside neighborhoods, said Scott Schneider, deputy director of public works.

Schneider said the project is larger than its routine summer street work, which usually costs about $1 million.

“It's tough trying to keep to that million dollars when we're in a neighborhood that we can't really just stop at one street and then not do the adjacent street,” he said.

The project, paired with the town's slurry seal project planned for June, is expected to increase the town's “pavement condition index” rating from 66 to the 70s, Schneider said. Because there will always be a mix of newly paved roads with those needing work, a theoretical maximum PCI rating would be around 84, he said.

The streets included in the Oak Springs neighborhood are Woodside Drive from Butterfield Drive to Idlewood Drive; Woodside

Court; Oaks Springs Drive from Woodside Drive to Angela Avenue; Timothy Avenue; Angela Avenue from Oak Springs Drive to Sheila Court; and Angela Avenue from Oak Springs Drive to the end of the road.

In the Morningside neighborhood, work will happen on Mountain View Avenue; Beverly Way; Cordone Drive; Brookside Drive from Morningside Drive to Cordone Drive; and Riviera Street from Mountain View Avenue to Cordone Drive.

Shared lane markings, or sharrows, will be installed on Cordone and Brookside drives as part of the school biking network.

The project is expected to go out to bid in July. About 45 days of work will begin in August, Schneider said.

The $132,000 design cost was included in the 202122 budget, but funding for the road work is part of the 2022-23 budget. The project is being paid for with Measure D sales tax dollars and the town's road maintenance fund.

Councilmember Ford Greene praised the town staff for continuing to increase the town's PCI rating.

“The ongoing attention to the condition of our streets really shines, and I think, differentiates us from a lot of other communities in Marin,” Greene said. “So, I'm completely in favor of this item.”